Lemon seed
Surprise in the soup
But as soon as uncomfortable hit my tongue
I knew that I had known
The bitter shrouds
The seed pushed through the hull
Much like the carrot stick
Root
Forced through the blades
Pressure, grind, muscling
The sweet shrouds
The flesh pushed through the shredder
Does the carrot
Require force, in order to
Go into the salad, the soup?
Or …
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